Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-04-02


substantially as follows: with all
their prophetic wisdom. they never
foretOld one event which came TO pass. .
with all their keenness of vision, they
never saw ANYTHING as it was. They
advocated dissolution Of the union as
the only means of destroying slavery.
They lived to see slavery destroyed, not
only without their aid. but against their
protest. while the union was preserved
and made permanent and harmonious.
No fraternity of montebanks ever lived
so long or worked so hard or did so lit.
tie. Why. if they had come on my
side, instead of being utterly opposed to
my immigrat on plan. j should have
been whipped in Kansas and slavery
given a new lease of power. They were
the original secessionists, and would
have dismemberei the union long be
fore the shot was fired at Sumter if
they could have had their way. TheT
attacked the American church. the
American congress, AMI everybody who
did not subscribe 10 their doctrine. AT
the annual meeting Of the American
Ant-Slavery society, held May 4, lS4S,
the follow NC resolution was passed:
Re ot,ed. That, recognizing as We do with
profound gratitude the wonderful progress our
cause has made during the last eighteen years
and yet considering the effort now making to
m fb.. hat he
church and the laud can aud will abolish
slavery by its own virtue; and that the parties
ere able and willing to grappie with the evil,
this society deems it duty 10 rciterate its
convictions that the only exodus for the slave
out Of his present house OF bondage Il over the
ruins Of the present American church and the
present Amer can union.
In 1855" continued Mr.. Thayer,
turning over the pages of a scrap-book.
when every member of the Emigrant
Aid company was thoroughly convinc-
/ ed that Kansas and Nebraska were pre-
served for the column of free states,
Wendell Phillips, in a speech publ shed
in The Liberator. August 10 OF that
year, declared that Kansas was fall
/ ure as free state because We meant, as
he said, to take possession Of the coun-
/ try, as the Yankee race always takes
possession of 4 country-by industry,
by civilization, b. houses. by mills, b.
schools. by churches. But it takes a
long time-it takes two centuries to do
it. You sent farmers To fight DULLES.
You sent men of thought and industry.
and expect them to Dispute their way
inch BY inch with the knife and the re-
volver. II can not be done. The mo-
ment you throw the struggle with
slavery into the half-barbarouS west,
where tn ngs are decided by the revoi-
yer and bowie-knife, slavery tri-
umphs."
The same year. September %. Gar
rison wrote in his paper: Talk about
stopping the progress OF slavery and
saving Nebraska and Kansas! Why.
the fate of Nebraska and Kansas was
sealed the first hour that Stephen Ar
mold Douglas consented to play his
perfidious part.
June 16. 1854. q few weeks before
the first colony was started for Kansas,
|. Col Thomas Wentworth Higgiuson.
now of Cambr.d dye. but then pastor OF
the Worcester Free church, said from
his pulpit: Here for instance. is the
Nebraska Emigration society. 1t is.
indeed, noble enterprise and l am
proud that it owes its origin to Wor-
cester man. But where is the good of
emigrating to Nebraska if Nebraska is
to be only a transplanted Massachusetts
and the or ginal Massachusetts has
been tried and found wanting? viii
. tine stream rise higher than its source
Settle your Nebraska ten years, and YOU
will have your New England harvest OF
corn and grain more luxuriant in that
virgin sol Ali, but will not the other
Massachusetts crop come also. of pc
!itical demagogues and wire-pullers,
and sectarian religion, which will in
sure the passage of the greatest hypO.
Sfitc W ucdNcu u Hc w III Jun thC iiSh'
church before he goes? And give the
smigrant twenty years more of pros
perity. and then ask them. if YOU dare.
TO break the law and disturb order and
risk life merely to save their state from
the shame that has just blighted Mas
sachusetts.'
'lf anything further is needed to sub
stantiate my charge that the old abo
, iitiopinsts were secessionists. said Mr.
, Thayer again, ''here is another resolu
: ton adopted by this same American
anti-slavery society in 1859"
Whereas, The dissolution Of the present i'm
perfect and inglorious union between the fire.
and slave states would result In the overthrow
Of slavery and the consequent foundation OF
s more perfect and glorious union without tn
r Incubus Of slavery; therefore,
[ Reso' red, That we invite free correspond
ence with the disuni onists Of the south In or
, means to secure the contamination so devouu
y to be wished for.
Still turning over the pages OF hi
scrape-book and talking with the fuen
J. ey and ease of person who had tn
; whole history of ante-belum days an
the anti-slavery agitation at hi
u tongues end, the man whom Charlie
Sumner said the state of Kansas ougll